
Some crimes reveal their strands quickly, and some remain suspended for years, but the most dangerous is those crimes that occurred in front of everyone, and they were not left behind any evidence leading to the perpetrator.
Bold theft, mysterious assassinations, crimes that were tightly carried out, however, they remained without a solution despite the investigations and accusations. How does an invaluable artistic painting disappear without anyone seeing it? How is a prominent scientist killing amid strict security measures without the perpetrator? And why do some issues remain mired in mystery despite the passage of contracts and turn into a mystery without evidence?
In this series, we reopen the most controversial files, and we highlight the issues that shook the world, but they remained without evidence .. and without answers!
The thirteenth episode .. The two heirs of the palace were killed in a mysterious crime
In the city of Luxor, and on the banks of the Nile, he stood by a lofty palace over a hundred years old, which was a witness to a busy political history, and shelter for two families of the oldest families of Upper Egypt.
Inside this palace, Sophie and Loudi, prominent political daughters Tawfiq Pasha Andrew, one of the poles of the delegation, and a friend of Saad Zaghloul, who embraced the leader of the nation in this palace during the 1919 revolution.
The two sisters refused to marry, and preferred to live in isolation, retaining the memories of the family and the glories of the past.
For decades, they were living a quiet life, they did not go out of its familiar style, and few were known about them. But that isolation turned into a bloody scene on one of the nights of January 2013, when the city of Luxor woke up to a catastrophe … the two sisters were found killed inside the palace, in one of the most mysterious crimes.
The scene inside the palace was shocking ..
The two bodies were found inside one of the rooms, and they were brutally attacked using a sharp machine.
There was no trace of breaking the doors of the palace or its windows, which means that the killer entered in a natural way, perhaps with the knowledge of the two victims or using a key.
The ambiguity increased that some of the contents of the palace were missing, while reports talked about the existence of searches and exploration within the palace as if it were a target of thieves looking for a buried treasure.
But what made the heirs of the pasha target?
There were many sayings about the motives behind the crime.
While other sources saw that the killing was motivated by theft and greed, as the hadiths reported that the two sisters had quantities of gold and jewelry, along with huge financial wealth and agricultural lands exceeding 100 acres.
Some have said that behind the crime a struggle for family inheritance, while others went on to say that the crime may be an old revenge for unknown reasons.
Despite extensive investigations, the killer has not been revealed today.
Criminal investigation devices in Luxor Governorate conducted extensive investigations, and dozens were interrogated, but the case remained unlawful.
No decisive evidence has been reached, and no accused has been seized.
The palace, which witnessed a busy political history, has become a bloody puzzle that was not resolved.
12 years have passed since the crime, and the story is still mired in mystery.
The murderer remained unknown, and the file of the case was kept secret, so that the palace turns from a historical teacher into a stage for a crime whose talismans did not decide on and the case was restricted against an unknown.